Everything about Behavior tree

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Behavior treeA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: A survey of Behavior Trees in robotics and AIInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The Giving TreeThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Tree graph inequalities and critical behavior in percolation modelsCited 187 times
5. Go sideways: Modeling languageA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Systems architectureA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Tree graph inequalities and critical behavior in percolation models

  Michael Aizenman, Charles M. Newman · 1984 · Journal of Statistical Physics · 187 citations

• Territorial Behavior in the Green Tree Ant (Oecophylla smaragdina)

  Bert Holldobler · 1983 · Biotropica · 161 citations

• Nest-Building Behavior in PCB-Contaminated Tree Swallows

  John P. McCarty · 1999 · The Auk · 65 citations

• The morphology and behavior of the water tree

  J.L. Chen, J.C. Filippini · 1993 · IEEE Transactions on Electrical Insulation · 61 citations

• Evolutionary Behavior Tree Approaches for Navigating Platform Games

  Miguel Nicolau, Diego Perez-Liebana, Michael O'Neill · 2017 · IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games · 55 citations

• Comparing models for tree distributions: concept, structures, and behavior

  Janine Bolliger, Felix Kienast, Harald Bugmann · 2000 · Ecological Modelling · 44 citations

• Modeling synchronized calling behavior of Japanese tree frogs

  Ikkyu Aihara · 2009 · Physical Review E · 43 citations

• Using Decision Tree Induction Systems for Modeling Space‐Time Behavior

  T. A. Arentze, F. Hofman, H. van Mourik · 2000 · Geographical Analysis · 38 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• A survey of Behavior Trees in robotics and AI

  Matteo Iovino, Edvards Scukins, Jonathan Styrud · 2022 · Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 287 citations

• Mass fire behavior created by extensive tree mortality and high tree density not predicted by operational fire behavior models in the southern Sierra Nevada

  Scott L. Stephens, Alexis A. Bernal, Brandon M. Collins · 2022 · Forest Ecology and Management · 107 citations

• Learning Behavior Trees From Planning Experts Using Decision Tree and Logic Factorization

  Simona Gugliermo, Erik Schaffernicht, Christos Koniaris · 2023 · IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 29 citations

• Exploring innovation adoption behavior for sustainable development of Mediterranean tree crops

  Giuseppe Timpanaro, Biagio Pecorino, Gaetano Chinnici · 2023 · Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems · 23 citations

• Drivers’ Behavior and Traffic Accident Analysis Using Decision Tree Method

  Pires Abdullah, Tibor Sipos · 2022 · Sustainability · 22 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The Giving TreeShel Silverstein, Kjell Hill Silverstein · 1963
• BalloonSterling/Balloon · 1998
• Up in the TreeMargaret Atwood · 1978
• Whistling thornHelen Cowcher · 1993
• The Secret Wisdom of NaturePeter Wohlleben, Sean Barrett · 2019
• Modelling in Behavioural EcologyDennis Lendrem · 1986
• Count down to fallFran Hawk · 2009
• Christmas Eve at the MellopsTomi Ungerer · 1960

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